Multi factional model

Multi factional model

The multi-factional model looks at our health and illnesses that might be affected by multiple factors, which include: Biological factors, environment factors, sociocultural factors, personality, behavior and stress.   The multi-factional model gives detail that explains why an individual may get ill easier than others.   If we as humans knew what might be causing us to be ill they would be better prepared to take care of themselves and become healthier.   An individual’s health problems may be contributed to many factors inside of the multi-factional model.   Some examples of this are a person behaviors, smoking, drinking, and their diet with stressor that we live with on an everyday bases. The stressor may come from getting married, body aches and pains and frustrations.   Psychological factors and our behavior play a part in determining our health.   For us to be healthy we need to take steps to reduce the chance of developing certain diseases like hypertension and high blood pressure.   If they go untreated hypertension and high blood pressure can cause coronary heart disease.
“Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, most often from heart attacks” (American heart Association, 2000) (page 135). People have a greater chance of getting CHD, due to food they eat and their behavior toward food.   The first major factor for developing CHD is if it is in the family history.   Family history only plays part of it.   Stress and psychology conditions and behavior plays the other part in CHD.   All of these factors together will affect ones health and cause the disease.   Other factors that will increase a persons’ risk for CHD are lack of exercise, being tired all the time, and emotional strain from everyday life.   With all of the factors that cause CHD, a doctor will use the multi-factor model to help him or her determine their factors along with the patient’s family history to see if this puts them at risk for CHD or other...